After cloning the repo...

./balance_ticker.sh nristen
./functions.sh: line 229: jq: command not found
./functions.sh: line 138: jq: command not found

So I ran:

brew search jq
jq
brew install jq

This of course means that brew was already installed in OSX.

./worth.sh nristen
89.408

./balance_ticker.sh nristen
           nristen: 89.51 USD [44.98 USD (10.411 SBD at 4.32 USD) STEEM: 44.54 USD (9.92 STEEM at 4.49 USD)]

This was run inside of iterm the OSX terminal emulator (separate from terminal however I doubt that the terminal emulator would make a difference).

On a whim I decided to run the balance_ticker.sh as a background process to see if I could do other things in the terminal while the ticker was displayed:

That did not work that well... I was still able to see the prompt but I lost the blinking cursor (I could still type... just couldn't see where I was on the screen).

./worth_ticker.sh nristen
(standard_in) 1: parse error
(standard_in) 1: parse error
 ten: 0.00^C0

I am not really sure what happened in the last command.